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PLETHORA
overplus, plethora, superfluity, embarrassment
(noun) extreme excess; “an embarrassment of riches”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
plethora (plural plethorae or plethoras)
(usually, followed by of) An excessive amount or number; an abundance.
(medicine, archaic) An excess of red blood cells or bodily humours.
Synonyms
• (excess, abundance): glut, myriad, surfeit, superfluity, slew
Anagrams
• Althorpe, traphole, tropheal
Source: Wiktionary
Pleth"o*ra, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. Pleonasm.]
1. Overfullness; especially, excessive fullness of the blood vessels; repletion; that state of the blood vessels or of the system when the blood exceeds a healthy standard in quantity; hyperæmia; -- opposed to anæmia.
2. State of being overfull; excess; superabundance. He labors under a plethora of wit and imagination. Jeffrey.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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